It's potentially dangerous to look at the lineup of the Sundance Film Festival (which ended Sunday) as a reflection of the character of contemporary indie film, the collective American consciousness or, well, anything. But there's no question that the festival's 2012 edition was stuffed with films in some way touched by the psychological and practical fallout of economic crisis. Fiction and nonfiction features, whether broaching economics directly or indirectly, grappled with the difficulty of holding on to what you've got when everyone else is losing theirs. Many films suggested the new American normal is to dream not of accumulation or advancement but of merely... More >>>